Coln Quarry, Lechlade (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.7° N, 1.7° W: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 8.7° E)

When: Peterborough Member (Oxford Clay Formation), Callovian (166.1 - 163.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; tabular claystone

• warm euhaline shallow shelf sea
• fissile grey shaly clay

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: original calcite, replaced with pyrite

Collected by J. Wyman; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: T. A. M. Ewin and B. Thuy. 2015. Two new British Mesozoic ophiuroid localities, primary observations and determinations. In S. Zamora, I. RĂ¡bano (eds.), Progress in Echinoderm Paleobiology, Cuadernos del Museo Geominero 19:53-57 [V. Syverson/V. Syverson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 182912: authorized by Val Syverson, entered by Val Syverson on 28.11.2016

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Taxonomic list

Ophiuroidea
 Amphilepidida - Ophiolepididae
Enakomusium whymanae Ewin and Thuy 2017 brittle star
 Ophiurida - Ophiopyrgidae
Aspidophiura seren Ewin and Thuy 2017 brittle star